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II.— Equipment. 
A mountain battery consists of four 7-centimetre breech-loading 
guns, of steel-bronze, with a wedge breech-block. The calibre is 
6*6 centimetres (2*57 ins.), and the gun is rifled with 18 grooves. Its 
weight is 89'38 kilogrammes (196*6 lbs.), and the breadth of the track 
of the wheels is *7 metre (2 ft. 3J ins.) The projectiles are common 
shell, shrapnel, and case; the extreme range for the first being 
4000 paces, for shrapnel 2500, and for case 500 paces. The carriages 
are of iron, with oak wheels. The fighting line of a battery consists 
of 4 mules for the guns, 4 for the carriages, and 8 mules carrying 
16 ammunition boxes. The second line has 40 ammunition boxes 
carried on 20 mules, 1 spare carriage, and a field forge carried by 
2 pack-animals. Each gun has therefore 7 ammunition mules, carrying 
112 rounds in all, in 14 boxes. Finally, there are 2 wagons or country 
carts, with 2 mules or horses each, for baggage, &c.; but these can 
be replaced in very difficult country by 19 pack-animals. The other 
three mules are for the officer s* baggage, &c. With the divisional 
mountain parks are carried 100 rounds per gun. 
Ill Mobili s ation . 
The special character of the operations in Bosnia necessitated a large 
increase in the number of mountain batteries. In all, 19 batteries 
were put upon a war footing by the different battalions. Four of 
them were those of the 11th and 12th Battalions, whose cadres existed 
in time of peace, and the latter battalion formed two new batteries. 
The battalion (1st) at Pesth furnished four, and those at Vienna 
(3rd, 4th, and 10th) two new batteries each, the materiel for which 
was furnished by the artillery field depots at these places. At 
Josefstadt the 8th Battalion formed a battery, and finally in Dalmatia 
two reserve mountain batteries were mobilised with materiel of the 
1863 pattern. The augmentation horses were all bought, and came 
mostly from Hungary, Salicia, and Dalmatia. The personnel was 
supplied by the battalions which formed the batteries. 
IV.— Distribution. 
An Austrian mountain division has three brigades of four or five 
battalions. To each of the brigades is attached a battery of mountain 
artillery, and one battery is kept as divisional artillery, along with a 
divisional mountain ammunition column. This was the formation of 
the 6th and 7th Divisions; the 18th Division had, in addition, as corps 
artillery, a heavy field battery, as it had to work independently (in the 
Herzegovina). The 20th Division (Szapary^s) only received the usual 
brigade-division of three field batteries, and it retained the ordinary 
formation of two infantry brigades of six or eight battalions. The 
